Canal Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

For other uses, see Canal Street (disambiguation).

Canal Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

Canal Street & Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Tribeca, SoHo

Coordinates

40°43′19″N 74°00′19″W / 40.72186°N 74.005365°WCoordinates: 40°43′19″N 74°00′19″W / 40.72186°N 74.005365°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

      A (all times)
      C (all except late nights)
      E (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M5, X27, X28

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Accessibility

Cross-platform wheelchair transfer available

Wireless service

^[2]

Former/other names

Canal Street–Holland Tunnel

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

6,011,243^[3]

Rank

72 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

Spring Street (local): A C E
West Fourth Street–Washington Square (express): A

Next south

World Trade Center (local): E
Chambers Street (express): A C

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only

Location
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Canal Street (formerly Canal Street–Holland Tunnel) is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue in Lower Manhattan, it is served by the A and E trains at all times, and the C train at all times except late nights.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to W 4 St

to Spring St

to WTC

to Chambers St

Exit-only turnstile from the southbound platform

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
P Platforms	Northbound local	← toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Spring Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Northbound express	← toward 207th Street (West Fourth Street – Washington Square all except nights, Spring Street late nights) ← toward 168th Street (Spring Street)
	Southbound express	→ toward Lefferts Boulevard or Far Rockaway all except nights, or Rockaway Park PM rush hours (Chambers Street) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (Chambers Street) → → toward World Trade Center (Terminus) →

The station opened on September 10, 1932.^[1]^[4] There are four tracks and two island platforms, which are each approximately 660 feet (200 m) long. There are two diamond crossovers allowing express trains to cross to the local track or local trains to cross to the express track. One is located to the south of the station for downtown (southbound) trains and the other is located to the north of the station for uptown (northbound) trains; this can be a bottleneck for trains in either direction. The platforms are offset, and a signal tower is located at the south end of the southbound platform.

This underground station is located on the street of the same name, which is the boundary of SoHo and Tribeca. Lying within a block of three different pocket parks (St. John's Park, Duane Park, and Cavala Park), the station sits one block from the entrance to the Holland Tunnel outside of the Tribeca North Historic District.^[5] Much of the surrounding area is characterized by its historic loft architecture.

Track layout

South of this station, the tracks split into two levels and cross at a flying junction. These partly allow the future junction for a proposed line under Worth Street, as part of the IND Second System. The proposed route would have run under Worth Street and East Broadway, and crossed the East River to Brooklyn. The bellmouths for this proposed route are visible from the E train headed towards and coming from the World Trade Center station.^[6] On the tunnel wall where the turnout is, there is an arrow painted with the words reading: "Worth St." written next to it.

Exits

Laight Street stairs

The station has exits at:

NE corner of Sixth Avenue and Canal Street
South side of Laight Street, between Sixth Avenue and St. Johns Lane
NW and NE corners of Sixth Avenue and West Broadway
NE corner of Sixth Avenue and Walker Street
AT&T Building

References

1 2 New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ Crowell, Paul (September 10, 1932). "Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
↑ "Tribeca North Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Commission. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8NAOtBXKhA A bellmouth is visible to the left, at the 4:12 mark into this video, just before the train enters the World Trade Center station.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canal Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: Canal Street–Holland Tunnel
nycsubway.org — A Gathering Artwork by Martin & Munoz (unknown date)
Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — E Train
MTA's Arts For Transit — Canal Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
Canal Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Laight Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
West Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
Beach Street — Walker Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

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See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Stations and line segments in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

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